RPGFan has a chat? I haven't seen it. I guess I'll either have to search for it or one of you could link me... I can already feel everyone sighing at the linking part, so I'll try and find it on my own.

Either I'm an optimist or a fool for asking but I'm thinking about picking this up soonish and I was wondering which stores carry this game as I don't want to have a repeat of the bullshit I went through with GameStop trying to get Tactics Ogre and DQVI.

I should also mention that I ABSOLUTELY have NO INTENTION of buying this online.

My advice would be to pre-order them in the future... I personnaly pre-order every interesting handheld RPGs that come out as I know they usually become rare less than a month after their release. What's great is that you can cancel it if the reviews are bad, and you're sure to get it if it's a great game.

Oh, I would like to buy it, but I went with the soul sucking black hole that is Pokemon. One game every few months is enough for me. If, the next time I'm itching for a game, I can find this I'll be sure to grab it.

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Thoren: Astronomers fucking love stars and shit. Whitman was a bitch.Hidoshi: Walt Whitman could beat you with both dicks tied behind his back.

I am actually picking this game up today, it looks amazing. I pre-ordered it a few months back but I haven't been able to pick it up until today. Old school graphics, Yoko Shimomura soundtrack? How can you go wrong? You can't!

I like it so far, but not completely sold yet (too much goddamn dialogue, and like 5 battles thus far... get on with it!!). I'm not sure whether I love or hate the artwork and spritework. The stark black shadows annoys me in the artwork, and so does the sprites' meager frame rate (outside of battles anyways, the in-battle ones look great!! ...which is odd, it's like they gave up for the field sprites). Great music so far, but the prologue last an hour and we hear about 3 recycled tracks. I like the game, but the lack of polish adds a bitter taste. I'm at the "first big choice", I think (the twins are making a big deal about a node, so...).

Either I'm an optimist or a fool for asking but I'm thinking about picking this up soonish and I was wondering which stores carry this game as I don't want to have a repeat of the bullshit I went through with GameStop trying to get Tactics Ogre and DQVI.

I should also mention that I ABSOLUTELY have NO INTENTION of buying this online.

Welp, this experiment has been concluded. I gots mine and with almost no trolling from the peanut gallery either. Even if the blather was useless this still went far better than expected.

I wish they had more than one dialogue image for each characrer though. Considering how much dialogue there is and how much space they take up, this was a pretty irritating oversight to me.

My biggest problem with the game.

So much dialogue and varying emotions, but characters only show one facial expression throughout. WTF Atlus!?

I find Stocke's face pretty consistent. =PBut yeah, even if they changed the 40x40 pixel range of their face only.I'm not too bothered by it though... a history of doing without is suppose does that to me.